Tag: A1200

Re-Amiga: a new PCB for the A1200!

Electronics hobbyists and Commodore fans looking to breathe life into a defunct A1200 might be interested in ‘Re-Amiga‘, a new printed circuit board design created by John “Chucky” Hertell. John reached out to the Amiga community on Facebook to ask for suggestions as to what his next project should be; when someone replied that they had an empty A1200 PCB,…

Early engine demo of PixelGlass Games upcoming commercial AGA shooter, AlarCity

Fast paced, top down, arcade shoot’em’up action! This new project -code named ‘AlarCity’- is currently under early development and it’s gonna be PixelGlass Games first commercial release! The game is targeting primarily unexpanded AGA Amigas (A1200, CD32) while a version for PC and  MAC is also planned as well. Project name: AlarCity Label: Pixelglass Project status: Under early development Release status: Planned…

Vampire 600 v2 – Amiga

The Vampire 600 turbo card uses the Apollo FPGA-core to emulate the 68000 CPU and the SAGA graphics chip. The changes for Apollo are: Added CHK2, CAS2, CMP2, EXTW/L, FAST-IDE and a HDMI boot-pic. Improvements for BFEXTU, BFEXTS, MOVES, NCBD, PACK, TRAPcc and SUBQ/BNE. Source: http://www.apollo-accelerators.com

Amigaville – A New Amiga Magazine – Update: New Link!

Amigaville Issue #1 is out – A new Amiga-oriented PDF magazine, created by Brian Hedley. It contains game reviews covering Legend of Kyrandia, T-Zer0, Micro Machines, Arcade Pool and Archer Macleans Pool. The main feature talks about the future of the Amiga, tackling new hardware and modern software for the Amiga. It is a really nice and well-done magazine, and…

New Amiga 1200 cases Campaign has reached the target 3 days before the deadline!

Yes, you heard it right dear A1200 owners. This time around the campaign for the A1200 new cases has reached its goal or €125,000. With still 3 days ahead, the backers have put into the project €128,873! If you had doubts about it and you are sick of your old-yellowed-smelly A1200 case, maybe you should also consider backing the project. There…

Amiv 2.0 – Amiga RGB 15 KHz signal to HDMI

Staringlizard has developed a replacement for the Amiga A520 adapter. The Amiv 2.0 can convert the Amiga RGB 15KHz signal to HDMI to make it possible to connect your A500 or A1200 to a modern screen. The Amiv has buttons to shrink the picture horizontally and move the picture horizontally and vertically. YouTube: AMIV 2.0 – Amiga A520 adapter HDMI…

Philippe Lang’s New A1200 Housings – Raspberry Pi/Pi2 and MiST FPGA are now Supported!

A quick update from Philippe Lang Dear Backers,Through our last update you already knew that we’ve added support for the Raspberry Pi and Pi2 boards within our 1200 case.We’d like to announce that the case is supporting Till Harbaum’s MiST board as well ;) Till confirmed us that all buttons on the board can be activated from the keyboard, and…

Philippe Lang’s New A1200 Housings, Campaign Update & Bonuses!

The New Amiga 1200 cases Kickstarter campaign ends in 13 days ! As of today, this campaign has reached 38% of its €125,000 goal. CLICK HERE TO SUPPORT THE AMIGA 1200 CASE CAMPAIGN! Campaign Goal: Maybe some of you don’t know yet why this goal is set so high, so please allow us to summarize it here: To manufacture new…

Paul Barnard's Amiga Music Disk

One of our website fans emailed us recently about a music disk he created last year on the Amiga. The disk contains five tunes of various types of music and with permission from Paul Barnard, we have decided to share it to the retro community for all to enjoy! You can download the adf from the link below. Many thanks…

Commodore Amiga 1200 PC MOD Multimedia Retro PC Keyrah V2

Ever felt like gutting your Amiga 1200 and making it into a pc? No? Me neither, but this is what TA152FW190 has done and he also made a step by step video of his progress work.The components inside the A1200 are: Acer V3 751G I7 GT640M 8GB RAM, Blue-Ray, 240GB SSD, 2TB HDD, Keyrah V2, 2x USB 3.0, Retro mouse. After…